Ground invasion. On lebanon, Israels Defense Minister said they were ready to use forces from air, Sea And Land to achieve its objectives against hezbollah to ensure people whod evacuated their homes in northern israel were safe to return. Use the quote that it would start soon in the few minutes. Hezbollah s Deputy Leader has insisted that the group is ready if israel decides to invade lebanon. In a defiant speech, he said the battle against israel will continue. In a separate development, lebanons Prime Minister said hes ready to deploy the Countrys Army to defend the Border Area if needed. Joining me now is our correspondentjon donnison, whos injerusalem, and anna foster, whos in beirut. And Tom Bateman in washington. First of all, all the indicators point to this Ground Incursion, this Ground Invasion starting pretty soon. Starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. Starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. The starting pretty soon. Yeah, thats right. The defence i thats right. The Def
Maria corina machado in venezuela, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much, stephen. It s a pleasure to be with you again. It s great to talk to you. It s two months now since venezuelans voted in the presidential election. Just tell me what has happened to you since that vote. Well, our victory by a landslide was something the regime didn t expect. As well as the fact that in less than 2a hours, we were able to collect, digitalise and put on a robust web page over 83% of the tally sheets, the official tally sheets that actually demonstrated our victory. It was a 70 over 30 victory, but if it had been a freer election, believe me, we would have won at least by 9010. So this was a huge defeat for the regime. Maduro is naked in front of the whole world and his followers. So his decision was to get surrounded and entrenched around the top brass of the military and in fact, unleash terror. This has reached to thousands of venezuelans that have been detained, and everybody that was directl
Must be avoided. Died aged 88. Must be avoided. He said he plans to speak the operation directed by israel s defence minister. Translation: we have no i interest in expanding the war. We have no interest in looking for additionalfronts. But if somebody attacks israel, as the houthis have recently done, with missiles and throughout the war with cruise missiles and drones, anyone who carries out such an attack, we will settle the account with them, and we know how to do it. Israel is not holding back, its air force releasing footage as they set off for the raid. And earlier today, it says it shot down another drone launched from yemen. For the past year, the yemeni houthis have been trying to influence the conflict in the middle east. This is their commandos seizing a britishowned ship in the red sea last november. They have longrange missiles, are supported by iran and are fiercely opposed to israel. Speaking yesterday, the houthis military spokesperson yahya saree said they wouldn t s
Here in the uk, candidates for the conservative Party Leadership Contest make their pitch at the annual conference. And New Zealand has regained the World Record for the largest number of people taking part in a haka. Welcome to the programme. We start in the Middle East, where israel has carried out what it called large scale strikes on yemen. Israel says it was targeting houthis energy facilities. A Power Plant and Sea Port were hit in the yemeni city of hodeidah. Videos have been posted on social media. Clearly a real difference to what we heard just a few days ago from world leaders, who were trying to arrange some sort of ceasefire deal, some sort of de escalation. They were talking about 21 days of no military action, of talks, but what weve seen over the last couple of days, and particularly with that pivotal moment here in the Middle East on Friday Evening, that large Scale Attack here In Beirut, and the News Yesterday that Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of hezbollah, had been ki
That hassan Nasrallah Hezbollah that Hassan Nasrallah has been killed . Has been killed . Well, it is a hue has been killed . Well, it is a huge victory has been killed . Well, it is a huge victory for has been killed . Well, it is a huge victory for israel, has been killed . Well, it is a huge victory for israel, there i huge victory for israel, there is No Doubt about it. They decided after a year of an attritional Border War with hezbollah, they decided a couple of weeks ago to give that up and push hard, to activate War Plans which they had been working on since The End of the last war with hezbollah in 2006, and they put them into action with devastating effect. A series of assassinations, those pager attacks, the activation of bombs in walkie talkies. Huge damage as well to whip insights, and now the assassination of the man, Hassan Nasrallah, who for more than 30 years has got himself to a position where he really was israels probably most prudent enemy. He presided over hezboll